Turquoise Pineberry

This average-sized shrub grows up to 2 feet (61.0 cm) tall and lives for around 12 years. It is very resistant to destructive insect infestation but susceptible to disease.

It has dozens of thick, curved stems covered in cracked, pine-coloured bark, and the wood inside is yellow.

The branches are very long, thin and wispy with hundreds of twigs that and are covered with copious amounts of giant, asymmetrical, leaves with toothed edges. The leaves themselves are solid turquoise with red splotches, delicate and leathery.

In late summer it produces handfuls of small, cream blossoms with 6 kidney-shaped shaped petals. They are hardy and have an overpowering scent that smells like onion.

In midwinter teardrop-shaped fruits ripen. The soft lilac skin is thin and inedible, and the soft azure flesh is salty and sour and powdery. The brown seed is large and is in the centre of the fruit.